News You May Not Have Heard About — 05/27/2016

News You May Not Have Heard About

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It’s time for Americans to take a stand and protect women and girls who are being sacrificed at the altar of political correctness. Radical activists’ efforts to “accommodate” transsexuals through bullying and unlawful directives gives sexual predators and deviants easier access to potential victims.

Reasonable Americans must take action to keep men and boys out of female restrooms, fitting rooms, and locker rooms. It’s time to draw a line in the sand and protect women and girls across the nation!

The Obama administration is already blackmailing and bullying conservatives opposed to this “PC” madness. Don’t let extremists destroy our right to privacy! Fight back by pressuring elected officials to keep men and boys out of female restrooms, fitting rooms, and locker rooms.

Americans are taking an important stand to protect women and girls across the nation. The aggressive, leftist effort to “accommodate” transsexuals in bathrooms, locker rooms and fitting rooms makes it easier for sexual predators to have access to potential victims. It’s time to stop this kind of political correctness that puts wives, mothers and daughters at risk!

Businesses and Hollywood elites are successfully boycotting an entire state, and conservative Americans who speak out in favor of separate male and female facilities are being ridiculed, marginalized or even fired. Don’t let these bullying efforts destroy our right to privacy by allowing them to silence Americans opposed to this “PC” madness. Fight back against President Obama’s and the Left’s attacks!

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John 4:24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (New King James Version)

God is Spirit, and nowhere, not even in one verse, does it say that God does not have a body. He is perfect, immortal, infinite, immutable, self-existing, omnipotent, omniscient, invisible, impartial, absolutely holy, full of knowledge and wisdom, and sufficient to provide for His entire creation.

Like any other person He has names, and in His case, many names. And just as our names identify us as specific individuals, His names identify Him. He has titles by which He is known. Men and women have titles by which they are known.

The Bible shows that He has a head, hair, face, arms, fingers, hands, waist, loins, eyes, eyelids, nostrils, ears, mouth, lips, tongue, breath, feet, and back parts. God even speaks of His heart! He rests, but He does not get tired. He feels things. He eats and drinks, and the alcohol in wine, as Judges 9:13 says, has an effect on Him: It cheers His heart. He laughs. He becomes angry. He speaks in a small still voice; He roars from Zion. As a man, He wept. Sounds a great deal like us, does it not? It should because we are made in His image and likeness.

But there is even more. He goes about from place to place in a body, just like anybody else. He rides in a vehicle. He walks. He plants. He works. He lives in a spiritual place called heaven.

Yet, despite all these biblical descriptions, the men and women who claim that God has no body never cite any other passage except John 4:24 as proof. But He has revealed Himself in so many different ways in His Word that what these people say turns God into a liar who deceives mankind about what He is like.

Let us be clear: John 4:24 does not teach that God has no body. It, plus a multitude of passages that we have read or alluded to, expand our understanding about the properties of spirit—about what spirit bodies are like. Spirit is just as real as matter, except that it is a much higher type of substance and is governed by higher laws.

John 4:24 is a statement of fact, but it does not define or analyze spirit. The properties of spirit are described throughout the Bible, as those who actually saw and heard God and interacted with Him reported their experiences. Either they are right, or these modern writers are. They cannot both be right because they contradict each other. Which will we believe?

John W. Ritenbaugh

The Design of Scripture by Brad Scott

The Number Ten – Law, Testing, and Representation

The Number Eleven – Disorder and Judgment

The Number Twelve – Governing Order and Rulership

The Number Ten – Law, Testing, and Representation

I am a person who ponders a great deal, not necessarily curious, mind you, but ponderous. I think that is a word. Anyway, I have always wondered why we have globally agreed that countdowns begin at ten. Whether it be a new year dawning or the launch of the space shuttle, the crowd gets real loud when the count gets to ten. Could it be that the number ’10’ is when things get serious? When reality begins to sink in? When the number ten is reached it seems as if the realization that whatever is about to happen is now going to REALLY REALLY happen. We also have a lot of top ten lists as well. It is as if to say that of all things considered, these are the top ten, and these ten epitomize all the rest.

The number ’10’ in scripture seems to have set the pattern for our top ten lists and countdowns. This number pictures the law, testing, and the summing up of a whole. Obviously the Ten Commandments come to mind when thinking about all the commandments being represented or summed up in the ‘top ten’, so to speak. The Ten Commandments are, after all, things you do, and what sums up good works, at least from God’s point of view. Interestingly, YHVH has given man ten fingers and ten toes in order to work, make, form, and otherwise do things. In the account of creation (doing, forming, making, etc.) the phrase ‘God said’ appears 10 times in B’reshith [Genesis] chapter one. We know from the life of Avraham [Abraham] that he was very wealthy and owned many camels, perhaps 613 of them. When sending Eliezer to find a bride for Yitz’chak [Isaac], Avraham sends a representative delegation of 10 camels. His instructions were that the woman who gives water to his servant AND takes care of the ten commandments, I mean camels, is the one who will be the bride of his only begotten son. Later, when bargaining with YHVH for the cities of Sodom and Gemorrah, Avraham talks YHVH down to 10 souls. Seems like an average representation of faithful saints in a large city. I do mean faithful.

The number ’10’ in Hebrew is ‘eser, which means to take apart, to portion out. It is the Hebrew word for the ‘tithe’. Every man’s tithe represents his wealth, whether small or great. Our decimal system is based biblically upon the number ten, for it is a combination of the numbers 0-9 that make up all numbers. The first occurrence of ‘eser is found in the number of Seth’s age in B’reshith [Genesis] 5:8. The number is actually twelve, but in Hebrew the numbers 11-19 are represented by adding the numbers 0-9 to the number ten. When reading the number twelve you literally read ‘ten and two’ (sheney ‘asar).

The tenth letter of the Aleph-bet is the yod. This word literally means ‘of the hand’ or lifting of the hand’, as in 10 fingers. The hand is that which we work, make, and worship with. Yod is directly linked to Torah and the commandments in Mattityahu [Matthew] 5:18:

“For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one YOD or one tag shall in no way pass from Torah, till all be fulfilled.

It is with the hand that the terumah (heave) offering was lifted up as a representation of all of the dough from the produce of the field (B’midbar [Numbers] 15:17-21). A representative portion was taken from the offering, and when accepted by YHVH, all of the fruit of the land was accepted. The Messiah claimed to be that offering (‘eser, or portion) in Yochanan [John] 12:32.

“And I, if I be LIFTED UP from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

The Pharisees also recognized this same concept in Yochanan [John] 11:50-51.

“Nor consider that it is expedient for us that ONE man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this spoke he not of himself, but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yahshua should die for that nation;”

Below are a few examples of the number 10 in scripture.

10 Commandments

10 plagues in Egypt

10 virgins of Mattityahu [Matthew] 25

10 servants and cities of Luke 19:13,17

10 horns of Dani’el 7:7

10 toes of the King’s image: Dani’el 2:41

10 vices of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

The tithe

The Passover lamb to begin testing on the 10th of Aviv

Noach was the 10th generation from Adam

10 Gerahs was the redemption money: Sh’mot [Exodus] 30:12-16

Israel puts God to the test 10 times in the wilderness: B’midbar [Numbers] 14:22

Haman has 10 sons: Esther 9:13-14

The Number Eleven – Disorder and Judgment

All numbers from 10-19 are represented in the scriptures by using the base 10 and adding 0-9. Thus eleven is expressed literally as ‘one and ten’. Eleven in scripture seems to speak of disorder and judgment as if adding to the law (the number 10). Adding to God’s order or Torah creates disorder and subsequently judgment. Twelve, we will learn, speaks of God’s perfect government and eleven seems to fall just short of that. It is almost as if the disciples of Yahshua [Jesus] knew that eleven was short of God’s rule, when they quickly chose a replacement for Judas so that the total apostles would be complete at twelve. Otherwise, eleven is not a number that shows up much in scripture. Below is a handful of examples.

The 11th judgment on Egypt was burial in the Gulf of Aqaba (erroneously called the Red Sea)

Canaan has 11 sons: B’reshith [Genesis] 10:15-18

Zedekiah reigned 11 years. He was judged the 11th year: Yirmeyahu [Jeremiah] 52:1

Jehokiam reigned 11 years

11th hour of Mattityahu [Matthew] 20:6,9. A time in our culture that means time is almost up!

The Number Twelve – Governing Order and Rulership

The number twelve in scripture is overwhelmingly expressed as governing order and rulership. In the beginning, YHVH sets the sun, moon, and stars in the heavens to rule the day and the night. Subsequently, we have 12 months in our year, 12 hours of the day, and 12 hours of the night. 12 signs of the mazzaroth [The Hebrew “Mazzaroth” has nothing to do with astrology. Rather, it is a tool that uses the stars to tell a story.] and 360 degree (12 x 30) orbits. Israel was to be represented by 12 tribes as also there were 12 apostles to sit upon 12 thrones (Mattityahu [Matthew] 19:28). Many juries in our judicial system are made up of 12 jurors.

As we related in the number eleven, it appears that the disciples were not prepared to take on their mission of going to the nations until there were 12 of them (Acts 1:20-26). Twelve is the product of 3 (heavenly completion) and 4 (the earth, things of the world). Godly rulership involves righteous judgment in this world based upon the instructions and precepts of a heavenly Creator. The 12th letter of the Aleph-bet [alphabet] is the lamad, which, when written, stands heads above the other letters. The word lamad means to lead or to teach. When we enter the New Jerusalem soon, we will all enter through one of the 12 gates into the city, each representing one of the 12 tribes of Israel. Below are a few examples of the number 12 in scripture.

The 12 tribes of Israel

The 12 apostles to sit on 12 thrones

Ishmael begot 12 princes: B’reshith [Genesis] 17:20

Solomon’s 12 officers: M’lakhim Aleph [1 Kings] 4:7

12 stones placed in the Jordan river plus twelve more stones on the other side: Yehoshua [Joshua] 4:1-24

Yahweh help us daily that we may be counted worthy to be protected from the enemy. Hide us under Your Protective Wings.

Shalom,Eddie Rogers, MinisterOne Crying In The Wilderness!

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